TV Network HLN admits ‘error’ in blurring rescuer’s Trump T-shirt

Steven Eckel had just finished saving a baby that had been left behind in a hot car. Word spread of his heroic deed, and HLN (sister network to CNN) came calling for an interview. Like every other cable news network, they rerun their programming all day long. In the first airing of his interview, Eckel can be seen wearing a blue “Trump 2016” T-shirt. However, in subsequent re-airs, the logo was blurred. Blurring is usually reserved for four-letter words, nudity, and those who prefer to lurk in the shadows of anonymity.

Thanks goes to the Daily Caller, who noticed the error and produced screen grabs and video from the incident.

On Tuesday, Steven Eckel, 53, rescued a 4-month old baby from the back of a hot, locked car by breaking a window the vehicle to remove the child. The baby was found in a Nissan Sentra in the parking lot of a Kohl’s clothing store in Monmouth County, NJ. The outside temperature was in the upper 80s. Eckel and another bystander, Sarah Mazzone, were alerted by the baby’s cries.

The baby’s mother has since been charged with endangering the welfare of her child.

CNN and HLN present themselves as politically unbiased new outlets.

The Washington Post ran a short story on the network admitting they “screwed up” by blurring the shirt.

The blatant attempt by the media to censor what reaches viewers seems to fall into a category quite distant from “news.”

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Susan B

The media will definitely bend over backwards to keep Trump in the negative. Thought I would share this with you. Enjoy!
Trump & The Pope
Seeking a weekend break from his campaign rallies; Donald Trump jetted to his yacht, which was docked off the coast of Italy. He invited Pope Francis and the press corps on board for a Saturday afternoon cruise. It was a rather windy day. The Pope's little hat, his zucchetto, was blown from his head and into the water.
A crewman began lowering a boat to retrieve the zucchetto. Trump told the crewman not to bother. Trump climbed down the yacht's ladder; walked across the waves, picked up the zucchetto; walked back to the yacht and handed it to the Pope. The Pope and the press corps were amazed! Donald Trump could actually walk on water!
Speculation immediately began as to how ABC, CNN, NBC, ABC, The Washington Post and New York Times would report this miraculous event to the rest of the world.
The next morning the New York Times headline read . . . . “DONALD TRUMP CAN'T SWIM!!!”

Andreas M

Yes the beautiful double standard of the media these days. You can clearly see which side they are supporting. The laudable part is that they try to be neutral and factual (that last part was more of a joke) but their bias seeps through like smoke through an air ventilation system. Guess in this scenario they don't want to project Trump supporters as good kind hearted people who do good deeds, doesn't fit the narrative that anyone voting for him is a racist imbecile with no sense of right and wrong. I use to watch CNN here and there and I could sift through their bias and misinformation when it occurred, now I won't even leave the TV off on that channel. This election shows who controls the majority of the media and which candidate they are favoring by how they act and report the news. This is just more of a blunt manner in which their bias shows and its disgusting. They couldn't even put it aside for one moment and focus on a heroic deed.

George E. Hand IV

Eff the media; they are as deplorable as they have always been.
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mrspaul

And they talk about Russian Propaganda...ours is just as bad!!! My opinion only!

William S

The less people trust these "news" organizations - the better off we'll be. I hope they continue to show their true colors as propaganda machines, and continue to lose what influence they have.